Tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced that he was moving the headquarters of SpaceX and his microblogging social media company X to Texas from California.
Musk posted on his X handle on Tuesday that he planned on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to the company’s rocket launch site dubbed Starbase in Texas, which X will move to Austin from San Francisco.
He referred to a new law signed on Monday by California Governor Gavin Newsom, which prohibits school districts from mandating that staff inform parents about their child’s gender identification change, as the “last straw.”
“I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children,” Musk wrote.
Recall that automaker Tesla, where Musk is CEO, moved its corporate headquarters to Austin from Palo Alto, California in 2021.
Musk has also said that he has moved his residence from California to Texas, where there is no state personal income tax.
SpaceX builds and launches its massive Starship rockets from the southern tip of Texas at Boca Chica Beach, near the Mexican border at a site called Starbase.
The company’s smaller Falcon 9 rockets take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Southern California.